Pad clip for disc brake

Abstract

The pad clip 14d is arranged between pins 12, 12 made to bridge an outer body portion and an inner body portion constituting a caliper and the two pads 10b, 11b. An engaging plate portion 27 is engaged with the respective pins 12, 12 without play. Press pieces 28, 28 formed by folding to bend both end portions in a rotational direction of the engaging plate portion in directions in which the more proximate to the two pads 10b, 11b, the more directed to an outer side in a radial direction are brought into elastic contact with outer peripheral edges of both end portions in a rotational direction of pressure plates 13b, 13b of the two pads 10b, 11b. Thereby, amounts of projecting portions in correspondence with the respective press pieces 28, 28 in a state of a material plate before being folded to bend from the engaging plate portion 27 can be restrained.

Description

[0001]This application claims foreign priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2006-174780, filed on Jun. 26, 2006, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates to a pad clip, used in a disc brake of a vehicle, for preventing a pad from being rattled in non braking time and pulling the pad apart from a side face of a rotor in accordance with releasing braking.[0004]2. Related Art[0005]A disc brake is widely used for braking a vehicle. In braking by the disc brake, a pair of pads arranged on both sides in an axial direction of a rotor rotated along with a wheel is pressed to both side faces of the rotor by pistons. Although there are known such disc brakes having various structures in a background art, an opposed piston type disc brake provided with pistons on both sides of the rotor in a state of being opposed to each other achieves a stable brake force. Therefore,...

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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides a pad clip for a disc brake that can stabilize the attitudes of an outer pad and an inner pad and is inexpensive and excellent in blanking performance. The pad clip is formed by bending a single sheet of metal plate and has engaging plate portion and a plurality of press pieces. The press pieces are folded to bend in directions in which they can press the outer pad and inner pad in the rotational direction of the rotor. The press pieces exert elastic forces directed to the inner side in the radial direction and the axial direction of the rotor. The pad clip is stable and can stabilize the attitudes of the outer pad and inner pad regardless of braking time or non-braking time. The press pieces are folded to bend in directions in which the more remote from the center portion in the rotational direction are directed to the outer side in the radial direction. The press pieces are also folded to bend in directions in which the more remote from the center portion in the rotational direction are directed to the inner side in the radial direction. This reduces the amount of projecting portions in the material plate and improves blanking performance.

Problems solved by technology

As a result, an unused portion of the metal plate constituting the material is increased (blanking performance is not good=yield of material is poor).

Therefore, a dimension of the material plate before being folded back is increased, and the blanking performance (yield) is further deteriorated.

Therefore, in punching a material plate from a metal plate constituting a material, it is unavoidable that the interval between contiguous material plates is increased, and the blanking performance (yield) is deteriorated.

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